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Dan Leavitt received a Bachelors and Masters degree in Music from the University of Denver. He is currently on the faculty of music at Colorado Christian University. In addition to conducting the Mercury Ensemble Dan has conducted the Colorado Ballet's Nutcracker. He has taught at the University of Colorado as a Doctoral Fellow and has taught at Metropolitain State College in Denver. Dan has performed with recording artists Andrea Bocelli, Diane Reeves, Mel Torme, Mellisa Manchester, Natalie Cole, Ray Charles, Johnny Mathis, Leslie Uggams, Amy Grant, John Denver, Bob Hope, Charlie Daniels, Kenny Rogers, The Canadian Brass, The Moody Blues, Mannheim Steam Roller, Dave Brubeck, Phil Woods, Aaron Copland, Richard Stolzman, Andre Watts and many more. He has recorded with the Colorado Symphony, Central City Opera, The Boulder Brass, and Rare Silk. He has performed with the Denver Chamber Orchestra, The Central City Opera, The Colorado Symphony, the Mercury Ensemble and numerous touring Broadway shows. Dan has published hundreds of arrangements for strings, brass and other ensembles which have been performed and recorded throughout the world. Dan has taught at the Grenoble Jazz Camp in Grenoble France for two years and has toured in France playing jazz and classical chamber music, 2004-2007.
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Wayne Templeman, executive director
Wayne Templeman is a well known recitalist in all of Colorado and especially in the Denver area. He is the artistic administrator and principal cellist of the Mercury Ensemble, a fifteen piece, professional chamber orchestra. He was the principal cellist of the former Denver Chamber Orchestra from 1984 to 1994 and principal cellist of the Colorado Ballet Orchestra for twelve seasons. He was a member of the Central City Opera Company from 1985-2002. Coming from Chicago in 1980 to take a position as principal cellist of the Breckenridge Festival Orchestra, his short stay turned into a permanent one with significant involvement in the Colorado musical community. In addition to his work with the Mercury Ensemble, he directed the Arvada Center’s chamber music series "Music with a View" from 1994 to 2006.
In addition to many solo performances with the Mercury Ensemble, he has performed as soloist with the Denver Chamber Orchestra, the Darmstadt Akademie Orchestra, the Fort Collins Symphony, the Casper Symphony, the Loveland Chamber Orchestra, the Aurora Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of the West, the Mostly Strauss Orchestra as well as the Breckenridge Festival Orchestra. Best known in more informal circles for his arrangements and renditions with the Denver Cello Quartet of country and western and rock and roll, Wayne has performed chamber music concerts in Germany and in more than twenty states throughout the U.S. and Mexico. In October of 1991 Wayne Templeman and Lech Lesniak produced a compact disc recording of Music for 5 String Cello and Piano featuring works by J.S. Bach and Franz Schubert. In 1997 he released a second compact disc recording "Three works for solo cello" featuring the music of Bach, Muczynski, and Kodaly.
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